The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. Genealogists often have a need to make reproductions of old family documents, such as wedding certificates, military discharge papers, immigration documents, and especially of old photographs. Another common requirement is to make copies of pages in a book, be it a …
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Surrey Land Tax Records Now Online
The following announcement was written by the folks at TheGenealogist: TheGenealogist has released 225,395 heads of households and property owners from the 1910-1915 Lloyd George Domesday Survey, covering the county of Surrey. This boosts its ever-growing Landowner and Occupier records from this period to a total of over 2.6 million. The coverage of these IR 58 records now includes …
University of Michigan-Flint Archive Collaborates to Digitize Flint’s Historical Black Newspapers
Newspapers are notoriously difficult documents to preserve. Newsprint is, by definition, a low-cost and non-archival paper. That means it’s all too easy for the history contained in those newspapers – particularly smaller publications without the resources to house a dedicated archive – to be lost. “Unless they were microfilmed or someone digitized them, chances are …